Surratt Courier

[BettyO]

Jill Mitchell's article on George Alfred Lawrence in the June Surratt Courier is not to be missed. It's an excellent and very well written story of one British citizen's adventures in the US during the war - please don't miss it!

You can download Lawrence's book, Border and Bastille in eBook format at:

https://archive.org/details/borderbastil00lawr

As an aside, William Wilkins Glenn's book, Between North and South is informative and interesting as well. I have Glenn's book in my library and discovered years ago that Glenn personally knew Reverend Dr. Augustus Stryker and after the war, interviewed him in relation to Powell. Stryker told Glenn that Powell was a steady church-goer; attending both morning and evening services, and described Powell as intelligent, loyal, devoted to the Confederate Cause and a gentleman. While boarding with the Branson family in Baltimore, it was said that Powell would frequently visit Stryker at his rectory home and dine with him.

I, too would like to know more about Mr. Glenn. His papers are in the Maryland Historical Society